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Creator:
Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British
Title:

The Blind Man

Additional Title(s):

Verso: Sketch of Horse and Rider

Date:
1853
Medium:
Pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "JEM"

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: "SMITH PA | AR STATIONER"; in pen and brown ink,, upper center: "PITY THE | BLIND"; in pen and brown ink, upper right: "3p"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "JEM | 1853"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1980.12
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
beggar | blind (people) | genre subject | signs | street
Access:
View by request in the Study Room
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11178
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Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 28, no. 108, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Susan Fagence Cooper, The model wife, the passionate lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais , Duckworth Overlook, London, 2010, pp. 97-98, fig. 14, PR5263 C67 2010 (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 28, no. 108, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)


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